Joseph Jean Francois Derbès
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 27 Dec 1820 - Toulon, France
Christening:
Death: 2 Mar 1874 - New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Burial: in St Louis Cemetery No 2, Nr 8, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Cause of Death: Brain Abcess
Find A Grave ID: 34931679
Parents
Father: Charles Dominique Derbes
Mother: Suzanne Marie Fortunee Pene
Spouses and Children
1. *J. Emerite F. LaSalle {FGID: 34931680}
Marriage: Cir 1849 - New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Children:
1. Sigismond Lucien Derbes
2. Olivia Derbès
3. Pauline Anna Derbès {FGID: 131278452}
4. Fortunée Marie Derbès
5. Carlos Derbès
6. Emerita Magdalene Derbès {FGID: 87832057}
7. Julia Derbès
8. Lucienne Derbès
9. Adrienne Derbes
10. Frederic Derbes
11. Rosa Derbes
12. Joseph Benjamin Fortuné Derbes {FGID: 175199295}
Notes
General:
Per Jack's father's bible notes:Medical:
Arrived in New York with wife and several children on the day Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. They lived in a big house in the French Quarter, and the other children were born there. The girls were: Fortune, Pauline, Julia, Rosa, Lucienne & Addrienne (twins), Emerita, Victoria; the boys were Carlos, Joseph and Fred. The father died suddenly of a brain abcess - the mother died at the age of 49 in a smallpox epidemic.
http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1682707&id=I77388603
[28 January 1878] Be it known that on this twenty-eighth day of January A.D. Eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, at the request of Mr. Gaston Doussan of this City, and pursuant to an order of the Hon. the 2nd Dist. Court for the Parish of Orleans, rendered ------the petitioner of said G. Doussan & directing the undersigned Notary, to take an inventory of the property left by Joseph J.F. Derbes & Emerite P. Lasalle, his wife, both deceased, as more fully appears from duly certified copies of said petition & order of Court, hereto annexed for reference. I, Jules F. Meunier, a Notary Public, duly commissioned and sworn for this Parish & the City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, repaired to a certain property situated at No. 57 Royal St. where I found after having been duly notified by written notices to them delivered: 1st - Mr. Gaston Doussan of this city, herein acting as tutor of the minors Emerite, Julia, Lucianne, Adrienne, Frederic, Rosa & Joseph Derbes. 2nd - Miss Fortunee Derbes & Miss Olivia Derbes, wife of lawful age of G. Doussan, herein acting as heirs of Mr. & Mrs. J.J.F. Derbes, Mrs. G. Doussan being herein assisted & authorized by her said husband. 3rd - Mr. Benito Solache, herein representing his wife, Pauline Derbes, one of the heirs as aforesaid. 4th - Mr. Adolphe Castenides, herein acting as the true and lawful Attorney in fact of Carlos Derbes, also one of the heirs, by virtue of a Power of Attorney, passed before the undersigned Notary on the 7th December 1877. 5th - Messrs. Alphonse Guibert & Valentine Scheler of this city herein acting as experts & appraisers appointed by the said order of Court and also appointed & sworn before me, Notary, to appraise the property belonging to said succession. 6th - Messrs. Francis D. Cherentier & George A. Villerd, both of this city, competent witnesses, herein acting as such. Wherefore I the said notary did then and there and by virtue of the above -----order of Court immediately proceeded in the presence of the said parties experts and witnesses to take a true & faithful inventory of the property belonging to the successions of the late J.J.F. Derbes and of Emerite P. Lasalle, his wife, as the same were pointed out to me, & as follows, to wit:
In the Store, 1st Floor contents:
one lot of ruching(2.50); one lot of velvet (35.00); one lot of sundries (1.50); one lot skirt trimming (5.00); part of chemisettes (6.00); twenty-one robes (45.00); twenty-five infant waists (3.12); one lot Swiss & Jaconate Ev-J (35.00); one lot piquet trimming & sundries (3.00); one lot shirt bosoms (10.00); one lot loutache (2.50); one lot prittins & sundries (2.00); one lot hosiery (10.00); one lot black & white lace (35.00): one lot colored silk fringes (25.00); one lot assorted trimmings (5.00); one lot real black guissure (20.00); one lot imitation guissure & dentulles? (3.00); one lot real clusers ? (5.00); one lot imitation valenciennes white (10.00); one lot patent valenciennes (10.00); one lot real valenciennes (150.00); one lot lace, quimar? cotton & linen (20.00); one lot imitation cheny? (5.00); one lot sundries (5.00); one lot black lace veils (5.00); one lot crepe collars (10.00); one lot black crepe & ? (2.50); one lot assorted crepe (2.00); one lot knitting cotton (3.00); one lot lace mitts (2.50); one lot crepe trimming collars (2.50); one lot hair nets buttons & sundries (1.50); one lot illusion silk & cotton bobinet (6.00); one lot assorted dotted tulle (10.00); one lot variation tissues & barege?(10.00); one lot assorted tulle (3.00); one lot fichures ? (.50); one lot collars & cuffs (3.00); one lot tape measures (.25); one lot sharp ? & sundries (1.50); one lot assorted trimmings (2.50); one lot assorted gloves (10.00); one lot assorted alpaca braids (5.00); one lot sundries (5.00); one lot veils & tulle (1.00); one case mitts (1.50); one lot corsets (6.50); one lot real valenciennes collars (5.00); one lot handkerchiefs & sundries (1.00); one lot of fans (10.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pitretrail/myline/maternal/JJFDerbes.htm
Notes for Joseph Jean Francois Derbes:
- 11 September 1850 New Orleans census (3rd Rep. Dist., p. 200): Joseph Derbes 29 clerk (b. France); Mary Derbes 20 (b. LA) (Both can read and write.)
- 1855 N.O. city directory: Joseph Derbes Sr., store, 72 Chartres
- 1861 N.O. city directory - Joseph Derbes, Jr., dry goods, 49 Chartres
Per 1870 US Census, 6/27/1870, 4th ward, New Orleans, Louisiana
J. Derbes is a 49 year old white male, an importer of fancy goods, born in France, with personal effects valued at $1,500. His wife, E. Derbes, is 40 , keeps house, and was born in Louisiana. They have 10 children, all except Julia were born in Louisiana. Julia was born in France. The children's names and ages are: Olivia, 17; Pauline, 14; Fortunee, 15; Carlos, 12; Emerite, 11; Julia, 7; Lucianne, 2; Adrienne, 2; Rosa, 5 months, Feb 1870; Frederick, 2. Olivia and Pauline are at home. Fortunee, Carlos, Emerite and Julia are at school.
- [New Orleans Bee (newspaper), 3rd March 1874, p. 1, c. 5]: Decede le 2 mars 1874, a l'age de cinquante trois ans, JOSEPH JEAN FRANCOIS DERBES, ne a Toulon, Departement du Var (France). Ses parente et amis ainai que cenx de sa famille, sont pries d'assister a ses funerailles qui augout ___ aujourd'hui, 3 mars, a 4 1/2 P.M. Le convoi partirs de sa dernfere residence, rue Royale, N. 57.
De la part de sa veuve et de ses enfants, ainai que des families Derbes, Bellocq, Gilly, De Gruy, Fazende et Roche.
Les journaux de Toulon et de Marseille sont prie a de reprodnire.
Societe Francaise de Bienfaisance et Mutuelle - Les membres de la Societe sont inviter a assister aux funerailles de JOSEPH JEAN F. JULESS DERBES, membre honoraire, decede hier lundi, a 4 heures de l'apres-midi. Le convoi ___bre partira de la maison, mortuaire rue Royale No. 57, cette apres-midi, a quatre heures et demie. Par ordre du President. A. Barbier, Secretaire, 3 mars.
- Succession of the estate of Joseph J.F. Derbes & Emerite Lasalle
(See Emerite notes for Succession Notes)
Per New Orleans death index:
Derbes, J., Jr. 53 yrs M - 3/2/1874 Volume 60 Page 497
Per Findagrave
Joseph Jean Derbes
BIRTH27 Dec 1820 France
DEATH2 Mar 1874 (aged 53) New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
BURIALSaint Louis Cemetery Number 3 New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
MEMORIAL ID34931679
Family Members
Spouse
Emerite J. Lasalle Derbes 1830\endash 1877
Children
Pauline Anna Derbes Solache 1854\endash 1945
Adrienne Derbes Labe 1867\endash 1953
Declares that J. Derbes Jos, a native on Toulouse France, aged fifty three years, died on the second instant(sp?) March 2 1874 at four O clock PM on Royale Street No 57 in this city. Cause of death c abcess du cerveau (abcess of the brain). Certificate of Dr Louatre.